S. Arvin noted members of the Library
Administrative Affairs Committee (LAAC) and the Library Faculty Affairs
Committee (LFAC) need to be confirmed. She said she had spoken with the
proposed members of each committee. She proposed that R. McGiverin, S. Frey,
A. Kaiser and V. Muyumba serve on the LFAC. C. Blevens moved to confirm those
members; B. Hine seconded. The motion carried 11-0-0. Next, S. Arvin proposed
that J. Eubanks, Marsha Miller and L. Wang serve on the LAAC as faculty members,
with G. Garvey as the support staff representative. B. Hine moved and V.
Muyumba seconded confirmation of those members; the motion passed 11-0-0.

S. Arvin also brought up the charges for the
committees. The Library Executive Committee (LEC) met last week, and she
emailed the charges ahead of time. Discussion:

1.Charge 10-11: A. Comer
noted she received a letter from the Provost; she believes the library should
do whatever the five academic colleges do; we should assume we’re included with
them.

2.Charge 10-05: T.
Gritten asked if the Collection Communications Committee (CC) will be involved
with it. A. Comer responded that it’s part of a bigger library discussion; it will
come from CCC to LAAC.

3.Charge 10-07 will
also come from CCC to LAAC. C. Blevens and University Archivist Eric Holt will
have input.

5.S. Arvin said the charges
will be transferred to a routing form and sent to each chair once she knows who
the chair is. The routing form is on the L: drive if anyone wants to look at
it.

IV.Old
Business

None.

V.New
Business

S. Arvin said she has asked the Parliamentarian to review
the roles of LAAC and to give her a ruling to ensure the LFA is not violating
the Library or University constitutions as well as Roberts Rules of Order.

VI.Remarks
of the Dean of Library Services

1.A, Comer said she had
just returned from the President’s Council meeting. The council has a Master
Plan it’s putting together for campus, which includes eight points. Just for
the essentials, right now, we already have $101-million in projects. When the
Towers are torn down, we’ll still have $51-million to be done. The president says
that means we’ll be sharing space. The president wants Normal Hall to be more
functional and used in a more valuable way, she said. There will be lots of
discussion on this plan, which is part of the strategic plan. She expects
there will be more discussion in the president’s remarks in a few weeks.

2.S. Frey noted selected
ISU faculty members were sent a survey form from the Chronicle of Higher Education
on “great places to work.” She asked if the president had said anything about
that survey? The results should be in. A. Comer said she’d not heard
anything. B. Hine said she hadn’t heard anything either.

3.A. Comer said she had
never received any results on what we did two years ago for evaluating support
staff positions. The matter is still under discussion.

4.T. Gritten said the
Center for Instruction, Research and Technology (CIRT) is now responsible for
new faculty orientation. The idea is to combat high faculty turnover. S. Frey
noted there’s a web page that has a bar graph with preliminary results, but the
axes aren’t labeled.

VII.Remarks
from Library Support Staff

G. Garvey said support staff members have
their next meeting on Thursday.

VIII.15-Minute
Open Discussion

B. Hine reminded everyone of the University
Club open house this Friday, 3:00 – 6:00 p.m.

S. Hardin reminded everyone about the
fundraiser for a statue of Max Ehrmann on Friday, September 25th.

C. Blevens said the library is taking part in
program called LibQual Lite. The survey will run from September 28 through
October 18. Help from other people in the library will probably be needed to
get it done.

C. Blevens also said that as of this morning,
only 16 people haven’t picked up their Extravaganza prizes. There have been lots
of positive comments about the Extravaganza..

IX.Committee
Reports

A.Library
Administrative Affairs Committee

J. Eubanks commented on the Memorandum of
Understanding about turning over some library space to a “one-stop shopping”
area for people needing University services. He emphasized we will need office
space for those displaced, as well as ADA-compliant restrooms.

B.Library Faculty
Affairs Committee

No report.

C.Personnel Committee

No report.

D.Search Committees

Search Committees are looking for three
support staffers. A search committee has also been formed for the Cataloging
Head.

E.Senate/University
Committees

S. Frey is chairing the University
Administrative Affairs Committee. She said the UAAC wants to propose the
creation of a separate faculty budget committee. Right now the UAAC handles it
as one of many charges; members feel a separate committee could be
advantageous. The proposal will have to go to the ISU Faculty Senate and will
result in a change in the University Handbook among other things. The UAAC probably
won’t consider it until November. The UAAC has also been asked to examine the
administrative structure of distance ed, especially in connection with
correctional education, which currently falls under distance ed. The structure
is a bit jumbled; sometimes people don’t know whom to call about particular
issues. The UAAC will also concentrate on the administrative structure
relating to student success. The Committee has eight specific charges from the
Senate Executive Committee

.

X.Remarks
of the Faculty Senators

A.S. Frey stated the
Faculty Senate has had its first meeting of the new academic year. There will
be a type of global announcement for students; it’s up and running now. Also,
if anyone’s interested, she has a copy of the revised mission and vision
statement. The next meeting is this Thursday.